Something else?

Finkelstein put down his wine glass, his eyes swept over Li Lin's face suspiciously, and chuckled, "What else is there to do with Mr. Li?" Is it a sequel thing? According to Hollywood's statistics, the sequel starts filming a year later, and it is the best choice to release it two years later, because at that time fans are almost already looking forward to the sequel to "World of Warcraft". ”

"If we had started filming before, it would have been easy for fans to mistakenly think that we were here to make money, which would have lowered their expectations for the film."

Finkelstein thought that Li Lin didn't understand the rules of sequel shooting, so he explained it to Li Lin a little.

"Certainly not a sequel to World of Warcraft."

Li Lin's gaze fell on McMohan's body, and the corners of his mouth smiled.

"It's Diablo." McMohan smiled wryly, he felt that he had lost because it was not the same time it used to be.

When I first negotiated with Li Lin, although "Diablo" was a classic, not many film companies were willing to make it, but now it is different, with "World of Warcraft", a movie with a global box office of more than one billion dollars, many film companies have a strong interest in "Diablo", they feel that it is also a game owned by Blizzard, with a good reputation, a classic game, and even if it is not as good as "World of Warcraft" after the adaptation of the movie, it should get a good box office.

But the problem is that according to the original agreement, the copyright of "Diablo" is in Li Lin's hands.

"Diablo." Finkelstein's eyes lit up, "You're ready to start filming Diablo?" If yes. How about counting me in? ”

"World of Warcraft" has already given him a taste of the benefits, and "Diablo" has to intervene no matter what.

"The same sharing model as World of Warcraft?" Li Lin asked tentatively.

"Isn't it possible to invest more?"

Finkelstein laughed bitterly, and the thing he regretted the most was being too cautious about investing in World of Warcraft. If he had invested half, he would have doubled it now.

Now that Diablo is here, he doesn't want to give up.

"Can we Blizzard participate in the investment?" McMohan tasted the sweetness and naturally wanted to join in and enjoy a bigger cake.

"Absolutely." Li Lin smiled slightly, although he has confidence in "Diablo", it is good to be able to diversify his investment. After all, "Diablo" is not the movie he remembers, and there is no basis for it to become popular.

"80 million investment, I will pay seventy. How about Blizzard 10% and Universal Movies 20%? Li Lin said: "The script is handed over to Blizzard's scriptwriter to make it, and if the crew is concerned, please ask Universal Pictures to help you bother." ”

Diablo is not the same as World of Warcraft. Diablo doesn't have the most money-burning war scenes. At the same time, it is not as popular as "World of Warcraft", so the appraiser of the Gold Group gave an evaluation of 80 million.

Theoretically, it's only half of the World of Warcraft investment.

"Of course, Universal Pictures is still responsible for the distribution."

"Yes."

"No problem."

The three of them raised their glasses and drank together.

"And." Li Lin said again.

"And?" Finkelstein was suspicious.

"I heard that Universal Pictures' "Fast and Furious" is being established, how about giving it a chance to invest?" Li Lin said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

There are many movies produced by Universal Movies in 06, but the only one that can make a lot of money is "Fast and Furious", so Li Lin aimed at this cash cow.

It's not like anyone else. Li Lin knows what movies can make money and what movies can't. All he lacked was a ticket.

And the cooperation with Universal Pictures will bring him a ticket to invest in Hollywood.

"Fast & Furious!"

Finkelstein smiled wryly, "You really can see it." ”

"Fast and Furious" in 06 is not a new work, but a sequel, to be precise, it should be "Fast and Furious 3", and the first two brought a lot of profits to Universal Pictures.

"I'm afraid it won't work." "In a sequel like this, the board of directors would not approve of anyone else's investment," Finkelstein said. ”

Sequels, the risk is small and small, most of the sequels will not lose money, of course, once there is a loss, the entire series will be suspended, and it can be restarted, agree that it is small and small, the reason why "Batman" can be restarted can be attributed to the big screen, the popularity of superheroes, which made Time Warner determined to restart the entire "Batman" series of movies, and "Batman Prequel 1: The Mystery of the Shadow" was born in such a situation.

Clearly, Time Warner succeeded, and they dug up another gold mine.

"I heard that Columbia Pictures has plans to start filming When Happiness Knocks on the Door? Please Mr. Finkelstein introduce me, we hope to invest in this film. ”

"And 20th Century Fox's "The Queen Wears Prada," I want to invest in too, and Mr. Finkelstein will trouble you."

Both films are typical films with small investments and good box office in the end.

And the most important thing is that these films didn't attract much attention from film companies at the beginning, and it was easy to invest, if it was replaced by films like "Black Hole Crisis" and "Spartan 300 Warriors", even if he had the money to invest, others would reject his investment.

"What are they doing by investing in their films? Why don't you invest in our films? ”

Universal Movies has movies to shoot, not to mention anything else, they just have a lot of scripts lying in their script library, but the problem is that they don't have enough money.

A movie has millions of dollars, tens of millions of investments, and dozens of films will exceed 100 million, plus blockbusters, the annual budget for making movies alone will exceed 1 billion.

If Universal Films is allowed to bear the billion funds themselves, their capital chain will collapse in an instant, so the introduction of external investors is inevitable.

And how much can be introduced is related to their film shooting plan.

With hundreds of millions of investments, they can shoot ten small cost-saving films or two or three big investments, and if more than one billion dollars of investment is introduced, they can even take out the blockbuster scripts piled up in the script library to shoot.

They don't worry about not having enough people to shoot the film, the directors of the Directors Guild have grabbed a lot of them, and the actors of the Screen Actors Guild have also grabbed a lot of them.

According to the records of the Screen Actors Guild, there are more than 2 million actors registered with the Screen Actors Guild, and even more people related to the film industry.

There are only staff who do not work in the crew, and there is no crew that lacks staff.

"You Universal Movies?" Li Lin thought about it for a while, and really couldn't remember what other masterpieces Universal Movies had in 06 besides a "Fast and Furious".

Even "Fast and Furious" is not a masterpiece.

"I'm sorry, I'm not interested in your Universal Movies films." Li Lin said that he vaguely remembered that the financial report released by Universal Pictures in 06 was a loss.

Even in '07, in the final director of the '08 U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, Universal Films was sold to General Motors, and then poor Universal Films thought that they could make a good life with a different boss, and General Motors collapsed.

In an instant, Universal Movies tragedy.

This is also the reason why Universal Pictures will launch the 3D version of "Jurassic Park" to cheat money.

"Of course, if you're interested in starting the Jurassic Park series, I can invest in it." Li Lin is salivating over Universal Pictures' "Jurassic Park" series.

That's a 3D fraud version that can break 160 million at the global box office.

"Jurassic Park is still over." Finkelstein shook his head, it was a series of Universal Movies, and the cake could only be eaten by Universal Movies itself.

If he is given to outsiders, I am afraid that he will be sprayed to death by Coca-Cola.

"Why don't you discuss our StarCraft?" McMohan interjected, Blizzard's three classic single-player games, "Warcraft", "Diablo", and "StarCraft".

Now that two rights have been sold, there is one StarCraft left, which he also wants to sell.

Not to mention the experience of World of Warcraft, he believes that StarCraft can sell at a good price.

Originally, he didn't want to say this, because saying it would be equivalent to actively lowering the price, which is very bad for negotiations, but other film companies are interested in "Diablo", but they are not very interested in "StarCraft", although it is not to the point that no one cares, but there are very few.

StarCraft!

Li Lin and Finkelstein glanced at each other and did not speak.

StarCraft they don't want to adapt? Think, of course I do, but the problem is that StarCraft is science fiction.

In Hollywood, science fiction is notoriously troubled, and at the Oscars, science fiction films are discriminated against; On the global film market table, science fiction films are not very valued by fans.

Yes, science fiction films have indeed produced many high-grossing works, and there have been many low-budget science fiction films that have been big hits, but StarCraft is different.

It needs to be big.

Big scenes and science fiction films are equivalent to burning money.

Li Lin originally wanted to shoot "StarCraft", but the evaluation department told him that if the current special effects and prices are calculated, it will take at least $300 million to achieve the effect of "StarCraft".

300 million dollars, not 30 million, not 100 million, but 300 million, this figure immediately frightened him.

If StarCraft were to be replaced with Avatar, he would invest; If StarCraft were to be replaced with Star Wars, he would also invest.

But it's a pity that "StarCraft" is "StarCraft", and without the box office of his previous life as a reference, he maintains a wait-and-see attitude towards this movie. (To be continued......)